{"id":117311,"date":"2021-04-05T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117311"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:12:06","slug":"venezuela-to-ask-un-for-help-in-clearing-land-mines-near-colombian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117311","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela to ask UN for help in clearing land mines near Colombian border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/dims4\/USNEWS\/1695560\/2147483647\/thumbnail\/640x420\/quality\/85\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%2F13%2F658e46d695cc8332a3637ba9e23019%2Ftag%3Areuters.com%2C2021%3Anewsml_LYNXMPEH330GO%3A12021-04-04T233934Z_1_LYNXMPEH330GO_RTROPTP_3_VENEZUELA-USA-TRUMP.JPG\" alt=\"Reuters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Venezuela&#8217;s President Nicolas Maduro <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CARACAS, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Venezuela will ask the United Nations to help remove landmines in its territory that it says have been deployed by &#8220;irregular&#8221; armed groups near the Colombian border, President Nicolas Maduro said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maduro&#8217;s government on Thursday said two soldiers were killed by a land mine during military operations in the state of Apure, where clashes between soldiers and armed groups has led thousands of Venezuelans to flee across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government will ask UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for &#8220;immediate emergency assistance so that they can bring all of the techniques to deactivate the minefields that these irregular groups have left behind,&#8221; Maduro said in a televised broadcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombian President Ivan Duque has accused Venezuela of sheltering members of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, and dissidents of the FARC rebel group who reject a 2016 peace deal with the Colombian government. Maduro denies the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rights groups from the two countries on Wednesday called on the UN to appoint a special envoy to address the humanitarian crisis on the border, which has been for years a center of drug trafficking and smuggling. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela&#8217;s President Nicolas Maduro CARACAS, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Venezuela will ask the United Nations to help remove landmines in its territory that it says have been deployed by &#8220;irregular&#8221; armed groups near the Colombian border, President Nicolas Maduro said. Maduro&#8217;s government on Thursday said two soldiers were killed by a land mine during military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}